Wouldn’t it make more sense to have one place to shop for borrowing services for local governments, school districts and special borrowing units like IDAs and Fire Districts? The expertise necessary to issue Official Statements, do the bidding, secure the legal approvals necessary from Bond Counsel, advertise, insure the debt if necessary, obtain third party […]
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Christmas is only 26 more shopping days away. We just finished cleaning up from Thanksgiving Day # 2 and # 3 for two of the kids and now the push for the perfect Christmas begins. I almost talked the kids and wife into letting me put the 3/4 sized Christmas Creche up on the porch […]
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Do you remember the old elementary school assignment the first day of school in September? “What did you do for the summer?” It seemed terrifying when I was a 6th grader but a piece of cake when the kids got that assignment. Today’s blog is sort of like that assignment only about our thanksgiving. There […]
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I’m on the way back from Memphis Tennessee’s famous Beale Street, fantastic Blues, ribs and people watching heaven. I telephone videoed awesome Blues music at BB King’s, Silky O’Sullivans, Rum Boogie Cafe, a Blues juke joint and the kid playing the drums on his skateboard at Elvis Presley Plaza. Toured St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital […]
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Wounded Warriors, their children and USA Olympian Phil Maher prepare to ski and snowboard Thursday evening, from 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM there will be a Thanksgiving Fundraiser to benefit Wounded Warrior Project/Stride Adaptive Sports at the North Albany American Legion Post 1610 at 35 North First Street, just west of North Pearl Street. The […]
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Went to a great Veteran’s Service at the NYS Office of State Comptroller’s yesterday that recognized 34 veterans from the OSC or their family members. Great displays and pictures of veterans past and present. An auditor from our office Joe Lydon is recently back from serving in Iraq (his wife Karen works for the Comptroller) […]
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As much as I criticize Albany County Executive Mike Breslin’s mismanagement of the nursing home, County workforce and failure to tap the unrivaled potential of the area, I have to give him props for his masterful political skills. This past summer, in a startling burst of honesty, County Executive Breslin admit that his budget contained […]
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The youngest of our 6 children is a freshman at Drexel University College of Engineering, Civil, Architectural and Environmental School for a six year long architectural degree program. We visited Philadelphia this weekend to catch up, tour Drexel, visit his work in his studio and catch up with the Clan Egan (my mother’s people) after […]
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Unofficial results as of 6:40AM. Maybe it was my father, maybe it was my grandfather, but I know someone passed on the gene on to me that makes election day more fun than Christmas. As a small boy I used to pour over the Montgomery Wards catalog and imagine what it would be like to […]
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